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Nick Clegg offers Syriza a coalition in exchange for seat in Greek cabinet

Nick Clegg has denied he is getting desperate after he confirmed the Liberal Democrats are willing to form a coalition with Syriza after their victory in the Greek elections yesterday.

The Liberal Democrat leader said his party would add ‘heart’ to an alliance with the left-wing grouping in exchange for a chauffeur-driven Greek government car and a seat in the Greek cabinet.

Clegg’s strong words come just weeks after the Liberal Democrat leader pledged to get tough with his present coalition partners, by promising to tell the Conservatives even to their faces that he’s really quite miffed with them about something.

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Clegg’s strong words come just weeks after the Liberal Democrat leader pledged to get tough with his present coalition partners, by promising to tell the Conservatives even to their faces that he’s really quite miffed with them about something.

After which he will quietly scuttle off into a dark corner somewhere, and crap his undies. Only a matter of weeks now Cleggy before your useless, backstabbing, dishonorable political party disappears into oblivion.

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Clegg might tell the voters that his is a centrist party that will save any coalition government of which it is a part from becoming too extreme, but in reality he’s just Tory under another name. No respectable Left-wing party should have anything to do with him or his gang of two-faced plunderers.

May is getting nearer, and both Clegg and Cameron know that they are doomed – with regards to Clegg, well he’s a man that lies before even an election has taken place just so he can feel important! He never was so he’ll go off to some cosy directorship somewhere in the back of beyond (one can only hope). In doing the dirty with the Cons Clegg has taken down a party which may go into oblivion. One thing is for sure, it will be decades before the Lib/Dems have any clout in politics worth noting…

The Troika’s austerity cut even current pensioners’ pensions, from all sources, leaving women of a great age with not even 100 E A MONTH. Destroyed Greece’s NHS, just as the Lib Dems have done in UK colluding with the Tories. And the Troika wanted to tax the charities feeding the cashless Greeks, when in the UK the Coalition that includes the Lib Dems refuses to directly fund food banks or fund, as in the EU, the daily free cafes that provide, without conditionality and vouchers, a free cooked hot meal and hot drink to the working poor, poor pensioners and unemployed alike.

The Lib Dems in last by-election did not even get 400 votes and came below The Greens and UKIP won, I recall (aka second hand sitting Tory).

The OECD has said that child poverty is increasing in the UK and rates the UK 23rd in work / life balance.

Doctors are informing through the Lancet of the huge rise in malnutrition NHS hospital admissions.

All this collaborated with by the Lib Dems over half a decade.

They go anywhere near SY.RIZ.A then the 300 will deal with Nick Clegg. (An in Greek joke).

I fervently hope they do, and that the Lib Dems become the gone party in 2015. Especially Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam and Mr Webb, out in the pretty countryside of Thornbury and Yate in Gloucestershire. My only sadness is that no Green candidate is running, when they could frighten even Tory wives and disabled unemployed Tories out of their wits tomorrow, with what the Lib Dems are collaborating with the Tories to do.